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Quotation from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
“the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible”
The Thirty-Nine Steps, Dedication (Project Gutenberg #558)
Buchan defines the shocker in his dedication to Thomas Arthur Nelson.
Citation: "the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible" — John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Dedication (Project Gutenberg #558). (id the-thirty-nine-steps-q1)
Portrait: ThirtyNineSteps, Originally published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh., Public domain.
